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A Cure for Collective Insanity?
A review of Richard Dawkins and Dave McKean's The Magic of Realityby Michael DowdRichard Dawkins and Dave McKean have made my holiday shopping this year easy. Indeed, if I could pick but one book as...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street: What's involved in making a new world?
by Tom AtleeThe following is cross-posted here. Short URL: http://bit.ly/nO5LjyDear Friends,My sleep was cut short last night by waking up worried at 3:30 a.m. PST about NYC Mayor Bloomberg's ultimatum...
View ArticleChanging the World Through a Shared Cosmology
This past week, we (Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd) visited our dear friends and colleagues in Santa Cruz: Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams— co-authors of the books The View from the Center of the...
View ArticleTerence McKenna Denounces Relativism and New Age Woo
Here's a powerful short YouTube clip of Terence McKenna goring the ox of postmodern relativism and non-evidential New Age woo in a clear, humorous, mild mannered, and supremely effective way. It just...
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Crazy Juice!
by Jon Cleland HostA few days ago, I watched a couple bucks fighting, heads down, dust flying, their rage clear even from the safety of my tree stand 80 yards away. It was exciting to see, and it...
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R.I.P Lynn Margulis 1938-2011
Famed biologist Lynn Margulis died on November 22 at the age of 73. Lynn was one of the most creative scientists of our time. She was always pushing the edge of orthodoxy and sometimes she was right...
View ArticleThe Death of the Fringe Suburb: Why we boomers are to blame and what the...
by Connie BarlowA superb Op-Ed piece by Christopher Leinberger appeared in The New York Times on November 25, 2011:The Death of the Fringe SuburbThat essay offers profound insights and trends for...
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Evolutionary Parenting: An Introduction - Jon Host
by Jon Cleland Host One of the most important parts of an evolutionary worldview is a commitment to future generations. Why? Because an evolutionary worldview includes the realization that we are all a...
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Evolutionary Parenting: Thoughts About Holidays
by Jon Cleland Host Though I mentioned some resources for Evolutionary Parenting in my previous blog post, I never meant to suggest that it is easy – it’s not (heck, good parenting of any kind isn’t...
View ArticleImmortality Projects in the Internet Era: The Rise of Volunteerism, the...
by Connie Barlow A year or so ago a colleague suggested that I submit an article to an excellent magazine to which he regularly contributes. I responded along the lines of, “Why would I want to do...
View Article2011: An Evolutionary Retrospective
by Jon Cleland HostCompared to our 13.7 billion year history, not much changes in a single year, right? While that’s true, we can place the changes we’ve seen in the context of an evolutionary...
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How Doctors Die: An ICU Nurse Responds
Note by Michael Dowd: A week ago a colleague sent me a link to an obscure blog that had “gone viral”:“How Doctors Die — It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be"Tremendously moved, I decided to...
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Who Is It Still OK to Hate?
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Are Humans Obsolete?
Are Humans Obsolete?2012.12.12 I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords! Do you? Much concern has been raised in response to the invention and marketing of “Baxter”, an inexpensive robot...
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No Flux Capacitor Needed!
Would you like to own a time machine? Of course, right? OK, just to avoid the grandfather paradox, how about a time machine that allowed you to go back in time to watch what happens, not to actually...
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By the Glow of a Pig......
*Special April 1st Edition*4:11 AM, 37 miles North East of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.Nothing on the magnets. Darn. I’m going back to bed. Excitement from a dream about finally catching a meteor fragment...
View ArticleSupporting Mothers, Supporting their decisions
“New father, huh? Not getting any sleep, are ya?”“Actually, I’m getting pretty good sleep. My wife co-sleeps with the baby, so the baby just wakes up to nurse, then goes back to sleep. Everyone...
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Evolutionary Parenting - Great Gift Ideas
Some Last Minute Solstice/Holiday Gift Ideas Some items shown for the first time this year: Fun toys for kids:A really great development! Charlie’s playhouse – which had great reality-based toys for...
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Treasures Hidden in Plain Sight
Very often, I hear people complain about the weather where they live – including weather which is normal for the season. This has seemed odd to me for a long time. After all, in today’s modern world...
View ArticleHope from Flowers?
Blue! Yellow! Purple! Red! Flowers bring an explosion of color into our lives, especially now as we enter May. The beautiful sight and smell of flowers soothes our senses like few other things...
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The Wonder Amplifier
The Wonder Amplifier Years ago, Dr. Richard Feynman was told he couldn’t see beauty. As he explains:"I have a friend who's an artist and he's sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well....
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Death is Life
Life is Death, and Death is Life.What? That makes no sense, right? Aren’t they opposites?Without the death of stars, life could not exist.No. Death and life are two sides of the same coin. After...
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Video Blog: Why Ancestors Matter to me.
Ancestors - with us today!Many cultures have celebrations around this time of year to remember our Ancestors who have died. For me, our incredible story of evolution shows that our Ancestors include...
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Gift Ideas for 2014
Solstice/Holiday Gift Ideas for December, 2014 New Stuff for Parents/kids:The new Cosmos: (great for everyone in the family, with enough different material that the new and classic Cosmos series are...
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